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...employees homegrown organic food for lunch. These ever expanding definitions of luxury keep the business interesting. Look at Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who in 20 years have built a billion-dollar empire by reimagining their own definition of luxury. In their case, it's a unique vision that has single-handedly brought provincial Italian style to the forefront of fashion. ?Kate Betts
...transformed his dreams into marketable realities. She hated him at first. ?I was dating Jet Skiers at the time,? Cynthia Hardy, a nonnative, says with a laugh. But she too was looking for something more meaningful in Bali and eventually fell under the spell of John's vision for a more perfect world?a world in which beauty and luxury could be a solution, not just a commodity. It is her ability to pluck the pearls from John's million-ideas-a-minute stream of consciousness and make them work that drives not just the engine of their...
Spending time with Hardy is like learning to dream: the farfetched suddenly seems possible. He speaks in a never-ending stream of ideas, and if you can follow the dips and eddies and soaring visions of a man who has transformed his world to his exact standards, you may catch a glimpse of your own future. ?Can you imagine the potential of a mud-and-bamboo IT center?? he exclaims as he whirls around the packed-dirt floor of his new media office, jabbing fingers at bamboo-reinforced mud walls, woven grass ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows...
...John Hardy factory is 21st century, the John Hardy home could be the future?or at least the Hardy vision of a sustainable, luxurious future. The entire structure is built of recycled hardwoods, including old ironwood telephone poles. It appears to float above an organic garden, and the ground floor has no walls, allowing for an unobstructed view over endless rice paddies...
...with middle-class values, and he chooses to spend his wealth not nurturing selfish dreams and desires but working to ensure that even the poorest people will have their basic medical needs met." Wrote a Seoul reader: "Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are remarkable individuals with a clear vision of how to make a quantum difference. This is not about giving money but about having an inspirational effect on others." A Kathmandu journalist praised the interview with Bill and Melinda Gates as "one of the best I've ever read. It gave so much insight into the lives...